Award-winning Singer/PBS-TV Host
CRISTINA FONTANELLI’S
19th Annual “CHRISTMAS IN ITALY®” Show
Saturday, December 17, 2022, 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Bruno Walter Auditorium for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, NYC 10013
40 Lincoln Center Plaza (Street entrance: 65th Street at Amsterdam Avenue)
(A 501 c-3 concert/event produced by The Cristina Fontanelli Foundation, Inc. preserving the songs of Italy and Christmas while giving children/youth performance opportunities and
raising funds for children’s causes.)
Saturday, December 17, 2022, 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Bruno Walter Auditorium for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, NYC 10013
40 Lincoln Center Plaza (Street entrance: 65th Street at Amsterdam Avenue)
NEW YORK, NY (November 30, 2022) – CRISTINA FONTANELLI (www.cristinafontanelli.com ) award-winning singer/actor and PBS/-TV host for Andrea Bocelli, along with musicians, a guest tenor, a youth dance troupe and choir will perform Italy’s best-loved songs, arias, Neapolitan and Christmas classics in Cristina Fontanelli’s 19th Annual “Christmas in Italy®” charitable concert at the Bruno Walter Auditorium for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, NYC on Saturday, December 17 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $79 (VIP), $68 (General), $62.50 (Seniors) and $35 (Children under 12) are available thru Purplepass Tickets: (800) 316-8559 or on-line: www.purplepass.com/ItalianChristmasMatinee and www.purplepass.com/ItalianChristmasEvening Call the office of The Cristina Fontanelli Foundation Inc. (212) 967-1926 for more information/group tickets.
Program includes Italian songs: Torna a Surriento, Mamma and Ave Maria, plus Christmas classics such as the traditional Italian carol Tu scendi dalle stelle and White Christmas; operatic selections from La Boheme and La Traviata; and guitar/mandolin solos such as the Godfather Theme. Here is Ms. Fontanelli’s CBS-TV interview and performance of the famous Neapolitan song “O Sole Mio”.
Musicians include: Matthew Hayden, piano; Joe Brent and Joyce Balint, mandolin (NY Philharmonic); Bill Schimmel, accordion (Grammy nomination) and David Galvez, guitar. Matthew Cerillo, young tenor; the Xaverian High School Genesis Choir (Brooklyn) and the youth of the Dream Studio of the Performing Arts (Staten Island) who will dance to “Dominick, the Italian Christmas Donkey.”
QUOTE: Ms. Fontanelli says, “I began this annual Holiday tradition 19 years ago to preserve Italy’s great classic and popular songs and the values they represent, for younger generations. We have been blessed to have continued, even during the terrible Covid Pandemic, and that we are now considered a beloved NYC Holiday tradition.” [HEADLINE]: “Cristina Fontanelli, Preserving Values Through Opera,” The Epoch Times. And “The best work came from Cristina Fontanelli” – The New York Times
This concert was conceived by Cristina Fontanelli and is produced by the 501 c-3 The Cristina Fontanelli Foundation, Inc. whose mission statement includes creating family-friendly musical productions giving young people performance opportunities and growing the awareness of the scientifically proven societal benefits of classical music and the arts. Tax-deductible donations can be made thru: www.thecristinafontanellifoundation.org
About Cristina Fontanelli: (“Vocal Genius” – The New York Sun) Brooklyn-born Cristina Fontanelli has performed throughout the United States and internationally singing title roles with the Palm Beach Opera, The Boston Pops and the St. Louis Symphony and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts from the Order Sons of Italy in America (previous recipient Luciano Pavarotti). She has appeared on PBS-TV and was honored by the Italian Government as an artist of Pugliese descent. She has performed for the Clinton White House and for the George W. Bush Presidential Inauguration. She appears annually at 54 Below and for Opera & Broadway of the Hamptons. She has won Best Actress in two International Film Festivals and sings in 9 languages.
Photos: Rob Klein Photography
Cristina Fontanelli with the dancers of Dimensions
In Dance (Brooklyn, NY) backstage at Carnegie Hall Cristina Fontanelli on-stage w/ the Jersey City Ballet children and the Little Language School of Dyker Heights Brooklyn
